I must make a confession to you today. I’m sick today after fighting off the symptoms of a cold all week. I’m still in bed at noon, writing and surfing my favorite marriage blogs for today’s Happy Hour post, but I must tell you–I’m pretty discouraged when it comes to our blog. We have had ongoing issues with our RSS feed, our domain name, broken links, etc. I’m not techie and neither is Tom. Tom is busy with work traveling more than he ever has in our marriage. I miss him and his help with these issues, but it’s providential. So I do the best I can, but seeing how our readership has dropped lets me know things aren’t right. Thank you for your patience and for your help – one blogging friend has even signed on as an administrator to try and help with our problem. Another has researched extensively our feed and could find nothing wrong. It is a kindness I will never forget, but the issue remains.

Why am I telling you all this? I suppose its because I want to be transparent. It’s easy for people on-line to think we have everything together because of how it appears at first glance. But we’re normal people, with normal struggles, who at times haven’t a clue what the next step is – BUT God is our source and strength. He will help me in His time, not mine.

In the meantime, I will continue to write, pray, hope and trust that He will use it all for His glory, even if He is the only one who can read it.

Thanks for giving me the chance to share this with you. Would you pray for us that God would lead us to those who can help us fix our blog issues? We are feeling quite helpless, but not without hope. This provides the perfect segue into our first blog post we think is quite special:

Encourage Your Spouse

Building Hope – this post goes right along with our recent post on 1 Corinthians 13 titled, Love Hopes All Things. Are you a hope builder? This post will help you answer this question honestly.

A Holy Experience

A Prayer For Your Home – Ann Voskamp, author of the beautiful book titled, One Thousand Gifts, offers a prayer today that I’ve found very helpful. Enjoy this post, enjoy her website. It is as beautiful as her writing.

Do You Have The Valentines Blues? – Lori actually did this interview with her local NBC News affiliate. What a privilege to have such an audience, and you’ll see she did an excellent job. Let’s pray for results in the marriages of those who heard her speak live.

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About Debi Walter

Face it, marriage is hard work. But when cultivated daily the fruit produced will satisfy for a lifetime. We're here to help with ideas and encouragement along the way. Having been married 36 years and counting, we share what we've learned with practical tips, Biblical Truths, Date night ideas to help you plow your own vineyard for God's glory.

Praying for you and Tom every week! I will be praying for these specifics! We have expereinced many of the same issues here and there, especially with our RSS feed. I wish that I could offer some help, but I know very little about these things. Brad knows more, but many times is at a loss as well. So as much as I would love to help out in some way, I will just pray! Thinking of you, hoping you feel better soon and praying for you! 🙂 You are in my thoughts! Kate

Thank you so much, Kate. Sometimes it helps just to know others are in on your struggle. God will help me, He always does. But when I’m in the midst of it I tend to worry and stress. Your comment means so much to me. And we can’t wait to meet you both in person!!
Now, off to pack – woo hoo!
Debi

Hang in there Debi – and don’t let the technical stuff distract you from the amazing things that God is doing through your ministry! Praying for miraculous solutions and for the immediate restoration of your health!
Scott

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Face it, marriage is hard work. But when cultivated daily the fruit produced will satisfy for a lifetime. We're here to help with ideas and encouragement along the way. Having been married 36 years and counting, we share what we've learned with practical tips, Biblical Truths, Date night ideas to help you plow your own vineyard for God's glory.